In 2010 I competed in the McCall’s Quilt Design Star contest. Below are my entries into the contest. It took place over a good number of months during 2010/2011. I made three quilts and a bunch of new quilting friends. If you’d like to see how they were made, click on over to my Videos page.

2nd Challenge Round entry - top only.

My Dilithium Crystals quilt has been re-interpreted in all solids using their American Made Brand Fabrics, by AQS. You can purchase a pattern or kit from their website.

Exhibited at the AQS Show in Grand Rapids - August 2012

43rd Annual NQA Quilt Show - 3rd Place, Small Quilt, Pieced.

Road to California 2012 - 1st Place Traditional Wall Quilt.

Exhibited at Denver Quilt Festival 2012.

“A Sprinkling of Stardust” was my entry for the 1st Challenge Round in the McCall’s Quilt Design Star Contest where it took 1st place in Challenge #1.

Honorable Mention at the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show 2010. The theme was Stars over Sisters. The back of the quilt has Sisters, Oregon fabric from previous quilt shows.

American All-Star and Sweet Scents at Sunrise are included in the Lark Book 500 Traditional Quiltsavailable at Amazon.com. My dog quilt, Shade, can be found in a new book by June Jaeger, Best Friends, available on her website.

I’m trying to get my feet wet in the world of modern quilting. Here’s one of my first attempts. I call it Branching Out.

Just entered the BadAss Quilters Society Game of Quilts Challenge. You were given four fat quarters and were only allowed to use those four for the top of the quilt. It had to be 18” square. I call mine Tree of Tyrell AKA Game of Thorns. It features the Tyrell Rose and a lovely thorn bush representing the sharp tongue of Olenna Tyrell. It all “stems” from the Royal Crown of the Houses Baratheon & Lannister, also known as “Joffrey’s Crown.”

“All hail His Grace, Joffrey of Houses Baratheon and Lannister, First of His Name, King of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, and Protector of the Realm.”

I was interviewed for the Alliance for American Quilts, Quilters’ S.O.S - Save Our Stories (95051-DAR004Davis). You were asked to pick a quilt and discuss it. I selected, It‘s Never Pointless. You were also asked about quilting in general.

My three entries into the 2010 New from Old Contest sponsored by the Alliance for American Quilts. These are 16” x 16” quilts. Midwest Makeover - the center quilt won an “Honorable Mention.” The quilts will be auctioned off on E-bay in the fall. To learn more click here.

Hand appliqued with some machine embroidery and machine quilting.

Exhibited at the NQA Show in June 2010.

Exhibited at Denver National Quilt Festival 2010.

This quilt is on the cover of the Springbok puzzle - Stitch in Time.

This was made of 11 orphan blocks I found in one of my drawers. It is called Mosaic Melodrama because of all the various misfortunes that befell it before completion.

Exhibited at NQA Show in June 2010.

Exhibited at AQS Knoxville in July 2010.

Exhibited at Denver National Quilt Festival 2010.

Our family does not have many traditions, but we do have one that we continue every year. We slog through the countryside and cut down our own Christmas tree. We do this rain, sleet, sun, or hail. If I suggest we head to the local store, to select a pre-cut tree, I hear weeping and wailing, “We can’t do that!” So, every year, we jump into the truck and head off for the hills. Why do we do this? Because it is a tradition, because it brings our family together at the holidays, and because there is nothing better than the smell of a fresh-cut tree, a few tired kids, and a cup of hot cocoa at the end of the day. My quilt represents our tradition. I choose a Star of Bethlehem for the center and surrounded it with trees from the forest. The hearts represent my husband, my two boys, and myself. The graphic nature of the design and the border are a nod to our Scandinavian roots.

DAR American Heritage – 1st Place State Level DAR American Heritage – 2nd Place Southwest Division